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Towards the end of October, Castel's new anti-plague serum is tried for the first time, but it cannot save the life of Othon's young son, who suffers greatly, as Paneloux, Rieux, and Tarrou look on in horror.
He appears to relish the coming of the plague, and Tarrou thinks this is because he finds it easier to live with his own fears now that everyone else is in a state of fear, too.
He is tall and thin and, as Tarrou observes in his journal, " his small, beady eyes, narrow nose, and hard, straight mouth make him look like a well-brought-up owl.
He also keeps a diary, full of his observations of life in Oran, which Rieux incorporates into the narrative .</ br > It is Tarrou who first comes up with the idea of organizing teams of volunteers to fight the plague.
What interests him, he tells Rieux, is how to become a saint, even though he does not believe in God .</ br > Later in the novel, Tarrou tells Rieux, with whom he has become friends, the story of his life.
However, years of activism, and fighting for the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War have left him disillusioned .</ br > When the plague epidemic is virtually over, Tarrou becomes one of its last victims, but puts up a heroic struggle before dying.
Camus's answer is clearly the latter, embodied in the characters of Rieux, Rambert, and Tarrou.
Rieux's position is made clear in part II in a conversation with Tarrou.
When Tarrou points out that " victories will never be lasting ," Rieux admits that he is involved in a " never ending defeat ," but this does not stop him from engaging in the struggle.
For Tarrou, plague is the destructive impulse within every person, the will and the capacity to do harm, and it is everyone's duty to be on guard against this tendency within themselves, lest they infect someone else with it.
In contrast to the humanist beliefs of Rieux, Rambert, and Tarrou, the religious perspective is given in the sermons of the stern Jesuit priest, Father Paneloux.
The child in question is Jacques Othon, and Paneloux, along with Rieux and Tarrou, witnesses his horrible death.
The fight Tarrou puts up against his end is emblematic of the fight against the plague and the absurdity of the universe.
The criticism of Paneloux, is that he, unlike Tarrou, has lost his faith in humanity.
It is clear that Camus's sympathy in this contrast of ideas lies with Rieux and Tarrou.
As he gazes seaward, Tarrou says with a sense of relief that it is good to be there.
Just before Rieux enters the water, he is possessed by a " strange happiness ," a feeling that is shared by Tarrou.
There is a peaceful image of Rieux lying motionless on his back gazing up at the stars and moon, and then when Tarrou joins him they swim side by side, " with the same zest, the same rhythm, isolated from the world, at last free of the town and of the plague.
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As a young boy, Tarrou attended one day of a criminal proceeding in which a man was on trial for his life.
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The novel thus appears to be told by an unnamed narrator who gathers information from what he has personally seen and heard regarding the epidemic, as well as from the diary of another character, Tarrou, who makes observations about the events he witnesses.
Many people, however, became members of the French Resistance, and they are the allegorical equivalents of the voluntary sanitary teams in the novel, such as Tarrou, Rambert, and Grand, who fight back against the unspeakable evil ( the Nazi occupiers ).
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Meanwhile, Dr. Rieux, a vacationer Jean Tarrou, and a civil servant Joseph Grand exhaustively treat patients in their homes and in the hospital.
Rambert informs Tarrou of his escape plan, but when Tarrou tells him that others in the city, including Dr. Rieux, also have loved ones outside the city whom they are not allowed to see, Rambert becomes sympathetic and changes his mind.
He then decides to join Tarrou and Dr. Rieux to help fight the epidemic.
Cottard and Tarrou attend a performance of Gluck's opera Orpheus and Eurydice, but the actor portraying Orpheus collapses with plague symptoms during the performance.
Tarrou and Rambert visit one of the isolation camps, where they meet Othon.
Tarrou tells Rieux the story of his life, and the two men go swimming together in the sea.
Despite the epidemic's ending, Tarrou contracts the plague and dies after an heroic struggle.
Tarrou describes him as about thirty-five-years-old, of moderate height, dark-skinned, with close-cropped black hair.
He does not do it for any grand, religious purpose, like Paneloux ( Rieux does not believe in God ), or as part of a high-minded moral code, like Tarrou.
* Jean Tarrou: Jean Tarrou arrived in Oran some weeks before the plague broke out, for unknown reasons.
Rieux numbers Tarrou among such people, although he found it only in death.
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